Salmon Arm News
Shuswap skiers tops
Two Shuswap skiers came tops at the annual Sovereign Lake Loppet on Silver Star Mountain this weekend. Thomas Hardy, of the Larch Hills ski club in Salmon Arm,...
Lines down near Sicamous
Highway 97A is reduced to single-lane alternating traffic near Sicamous. DriveBC reports hydro lines are down four kilometres south of the Shuswap community....
Cash for Shuswap trails
Provincial funding will allow new trails for hiking, mountain biking, horse riding and snowshoeing in the Shuswap region to move forward this year, according to...
State of emergency declared
A B.C. Interior First Nation has declared a state of emergency over the growing fentanyl crisis. The deadly drug has been responsible for a record number of...
Close call with truck
UPDATE: 1:35 p.m. A trucker who often drives the same stretch of highway where a near-crash was caught on dashboard camera said incidents like this give drivers...
Babcock goes Green
Government is best served as a collaboration of diverse voices looking out for the best interests of all those represented. That from Kevin Babcock who has...
Save the house
A group in Salmon Arm has its fingers crossed ahead of a city council meeting this month that may reveal the fate of a well-known heritage house in the city....
New leader for chamber
The Salmon Arm Chamber of Commerce has a familiar face at the helm. Shuswap Hospital Foundation director of development Fiona Harris was proclaimed president...
Campgrounds take on CRA
MP Mel Arnold is getting lots of calls from campground operators and RV companies over a change to a Canada Revenue classification for such operations. The...
Arnold backs O'Toole
North Okanagan Shuswap MP Mel Arnold is backing Durham Ontario MP Erin O’Toole in the crowded Conservative leadership race. O’Toole, 44, is a...
Grapes opens Shuswap bar
Grapes is coming to the Shuswap – well, his bar is anyway. The Prestige Harbourfront Resort Salmon Arm will soon be home to Don Cherry’s Sports...
Man jumps from moving car
Salmon Arm RCMP are trying to figure out why a man jumped out of a moving car. Staff Sgt. Scott West said on Feb. 28 around the dinner hour, “traffic was...
Thieves make off with ATM
Salmon Arm RCMP are on the lookout for a trio of ATM thieves. Staff Sgt. Scott West said on Feb. 27, police responded to a theft in progress at a local mall at...
Suit over Salmon Arm fall
A civil lawsuit for damages against the City of Salmon Arm over a woman's fall on a sidewalk in 2013 can proceed, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled. On...
From Shuswap to Patagonia
Members of the Shuswap Trail Alliance have returned to Chile's Patagonia region to train and consult locals on sustainable trail designs. “This trail...
Rocking the house
It's time to hurry hard in the Shuswap. The best senior curlers in B.C. are rocking the house in Salmon Arm for the 2017 BC Senior Curling Championships....
Sicamous robbery charge
A man has been charged following an alleged robbery on Feb. 12 in Sicamous. RCMP report two men were invited into a residence on Spruce Street around midnight...
No smoking, no vaping
Keeping up with the times, the North Okanagan Shuswap School District has banned vaping as well as smoking on any of its premises. District 83's official...
5 lanes for Highway 1
It appears a majority of people would like to see the old, two-lane RW Bruhn Bridge in Sicamous replaced by a much larger, five-lane structure, according to a...
Crash near Salmon Arm
UPDATE: 11:35 a.m. Highway 1 has reopened near Salmon Arm. ORIGINAL: 7:45 a.m. A crash has closed Highway 1 about 30 kilometres east of Salmon Arm. DriveBC...